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Air Astana
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KZR
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Astanaline
Air Astana Fokker 50
Air Astana
3rd Floor, Air Astana Centre
4a Akhmetov Street
Almaty 050039
KAZAKHSTAN
Tel.: +7 727 2584 136
Fax: +7 727 2598 701
SITA:
Email: info@airastana.com
Website: www.airastana.com
Type: Scheduled, charter, international, regional, domestic, pax, cargo
Owner: Sovereign Wealth Fund SamruKaznya (51%) ; BAe Systems (49%)
Employees: 2,934
Base: Almaty (ALA)
Hubs: Astana (TSE)
Start of ops: May 2002
Alliances: AirBaltic, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Etihad Airways, KLM
Air Astana operates this equipment: Executives:
  • 1 x Airbus A319-100 (6 on order)
  • 7 x Airbus A320-200
  • 2 x Airbus A321-200
  • 4 x Boeing 757-200
  • 2 x Boeing 767-300ER
  • 6 x Fokker 50
  • 1 x Embraer 190 (1 on order)
Chairman:
President:
Senior VP Planning:
VP Flight Operations:
VP Finance:
Kanat Bozumbayev
Peter Foster
Alma Aliguzhinova
Tom Nichols
Askhat Beisenbayev

Air Astana is a Kazakhstani airline with its head office in the Air Astana Centre 1 in Almaty. It is the national carrier of Kazakhstan and operates scheduled domestic and international services. Its main bases are Astana International Airport and Almaty International Airport.
Air Astana leased its first three Boeing 737 aircraft in May 2002. Three Boeing 757s were added and in 2004 five Fokker 50s were acquired, the latter to largely develop the domestic network. It became the national carrier after the government closed Air Kazakhstan in February 2004 and transferred all route authorities to Air Astana. It is a joint venture owned by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (51%) and BAE Systems (49%).

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